#PSTip Where are my About help topics for PowerShell workflows and scheduled jobs?

You’ve updated your PowerShell help using the Update-Help cmdlet and you are pretty sure that you’ve got help files for PSWorkflow and PSScheduledJob modules as well. If you look into their folders, you can see the help files:

But when you try to output about_WorkflowCommonParameters help topic, for example, you get an error:

PS C:\> Get-Help about_WorkflowCommonParameters
Get-Help : Get-Help could not find about_WorkflowCommonParameters in a help file in this session. To download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help topic in the TechNet library at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.

Why? You are bitten by a bug in the module auto-loading feature implementation. The work around is to import PSWorkflow (or PSScheduledJob) module first:

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